UKCA

Welcome to the UKCA Wiki

UKCA is a joint NCAS-Met Office programme part of the NERC-Met Office Joint Climate and Weather Research Programme (JWCRP). Project partners are the Hadley Centre and the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Oxford. Our objective is to develop, evaluate and make available a UK community atmospheric chemistry-aerosol global model suitable for a range of topics in climate and environmental change research.

UKCA source code available on GitHub

UKCA is available under a permissive open-source BSD-3 license and can be found on GitHub here:

• https://github.com/MetOffice/ukca

UKCA YouTube channel

Please visit our YouTube channel at

• https://www.youtube.com/@ukchemistryaerosols

Here you will find video walkthroughs of UKCA training, as well as lectures from previous UKCA training events.

UKCA Training - January 2026

The NCAS Introduction to UKCA course took place on the 14th-16th January 2026 at Fairbairn House in Leeds (NCAS HQ). This covered using UKCA at UM13.9, and photos from the course are available on LinkedIn

See Also

• NCAS
• The Met Office
• University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment
• University of Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science
• University of Oxford Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics